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I completed a PhD at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Previously, I taught for 20 years and taught for 15 years in a wonderful hybrid school. My dissertation topic and research were how certain teachers experience becoming who teachers. In teaching and leanring, I am a boundary-crosser who understands moving ahead is a leap of faith.
Teaching is a calling and vocation to express who I am as a person. Currently, I am waiting and listening to what calls me next. I am an educator, phenomenologist, scholar, boundary-crosser, published poet, author, parent, grandparent, and spouse.

Kind of like the theme of 21 st century learning: learn from others, learning anywhere anytime, you are in control of your own learning, what you make of life is up to you…
We have a variety of different tools to use to learn these lessons today. Enjoying your blog. You are great with words and images.

This is wonderful advice. Hard sometimes to keep in mind – especially rule number 7. I’m having some personal problems with one of my dearest friends right now, and it’s important (but hard!) to remember that it’s not all one person’s fault or the other.

They are attributed to Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott, author of If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. But, someone else said they do come from ancient Sanskrit. I suspect they have been around in some form for a long time and Dr. Carter-Scott wrote her book around them from a contemporary perspective.

This is THE best post I have read, ever. Is it truly from ancient sanskrit though? How curious!

Love no. 3 – ‘trail & error’ 🙂

It simplifies things, really causes you to pause on what is life. It is so true life is what you make it – but truly, do we ALL have the resources we need? There are schizophrenics (like my sister), retarded people… just not sure on that bit. Yet, I love this totally. EXCELLENT 🙂

It is a truly lovely piece. I am not sure of its origins but have been led to believe it has been around for a long time. More recently, it has been attributed to Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott, author of If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules.

You are probably right that we do not all have the resources to operate, but for the vast majority if we paused and thought about life these would be wonderful guides.

It is easily the most popular post. People seem to find even after five months. I posted it on June 29, 2012.

Great post! It parallels my own personal beliefs exactly. Over the years, I’ve been taken by surprise more than once when various situations have arisen in which I am forced to take a step back, reflect carefully, and then recognize and accept the lesson being offered to me. In the end, the result has always been worth the effort. Have a nice evening and a wonderful weekend, and thank you for checking out my blog and choosing to follow my rantings and ravings. 😀

my pleasure. my blog is becoming a technical minefield so i’m going to have to shut it down and start again at some point in the future with a different approach, but thank you for all your invaluable help and advice in such a short amount of time. it’s great to know there are people such as yourself out there.

Very cool poster! Now that is ONE I would like to see hung in each and every classroom! Instead of the $10,000 posters illustrating COMPETENCY STANDARDS that were TOTALLY not kid friendly…much less human friendly! (I was burdened with those Laminated Posters for my last 4 years of teaching in the public school).